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gentle-but-persistent stirring in your soul has been God whispering to you...whispering that the time has come for you to accept a sacred calling?

However, you are an adult, you are in mid-career, possibly a mother or father who still has children at home. Going off to a seminary campus is not a practical possibility for you, in spite of God's beckoning.

And yet, there is that poignant verse:

"I have called you by name, you are mine...."--Isaiah 43

We may be able to help you become an ordained minister or priest, just as over the years we have assisted many others to answer God's call to service.

We are a government-chartered seminary:There are on-line "ordination mills" that will "declare" you to be ordained for payment of a fee. On somewebsites, you push a button and, presto, out comes an "ordination"certificate. However...there's an honest, ethical way to study for theministry on-line. If you feel called to enter the ministry, we will behonored to assist you.

We take ministry seriously: it is a sacred calling to live a selfless andexemplary life in service to others. The Center for Ministerial Studieshere at Saint James College Seminary is a not-for-profit educationaldivision of The Love Church Worldwide, which is an inclusive interfaithdenomination open to all. You may study here and then return to yourown faith community with important new qualifications and skill sets.

You are welcome to study for the ministry as a priest, chaplain, or minister and share our common mission of striving to bring God's love and peace and prosperity and mental, physical, and spiritual health to all.

If qualified, you may be ordained quite rapidly. With our online Fast-Track Adult Learner distance learning study, well-experienced students may be ordained quickly, yet ethically and respectfully. We've found that most of the applicants for our online ministry classes are later-in-life ministery vocations, people seeking a fast-track to legitimate ordination. These are people who've always wanted to be a priest, minister, or a sister and have accumulated enormous theological knowledge and "ministerial street savvy" and want fairly quickly. If this describes your situation, The Center for Ministerial Education can help.

Thou art a priest forever afterthe order of Melchisedec.--Psalm 110

Some seminaries, some individual churches,and some religious denominations ordainpeople on a temporary basis. Sometimes,ordination continues only as long as the ministeris employed by their church. At the end of thatemployment, ordination ceases.

This is not the case with graduates of Saint James College Seminary's Center for Ministerial Studies. Here, the ordinations of men and women who graduate remain in effect forever, throughout all of their lives.

Saint James College Seminary offers Fast-Track online ordination education for adult learners. Our interfaith, non-denominational online ordination studies are affordable. We even offer interest-free student tuition loans. This is addressed in the "Fees" section, below. Please fill out the Ordination Application form to receive more information by return email. Once ordained, you will be able to become a pastor, perform weddings, celebrate holy communion, conduct baptisms and officiate at funerals.

Fast-Track Program:

Each lesson is quite similar to a review-type exercise. While each hopefully provides entirely new information and insights, the Fast-Track series is basically designed to measure or benchmark the knowledge and experience that individual students bring to the program.___________________________________

We are non-denomoninational

Will I have to believe as you do? - Oh, no! Each is called according to what she or he has been "given" by God -- and God has different plans for each of us.

We will provide you with a historical perspective. We'll train you in the practical ways in which many ministers and priests serve, including rudimentary lessons in prayer, meditation, chaplaincy (outreach), spiritual development, practical pastoral psychology, spiritual counseling, and will offer some pointers for operating the organizational side of a ministry. But, we will not spoon-feed you a creed to which you must subscribe.

You will receive a general background into world religious traditions, a historical perspective, and exposure to various belief systems and spiritual practices. Because we come from the world of Christianity, we will look at the concept of Christ as savior, redeemer (restoring us to our God-given state of "grace"), rabbi (Teacher), and even as one of the world's most-competent psychologists (although this side of Christ is rarely explored in today's Church). In the final analysis, you have come to the point of requesting training leading to ordination because the God of your understanding has tapped your heart and whispered to your soul that you should enter ministerial service.

Services you may provide once ordained:

If you choose to pursue studies leading to ordination as an independent minister, your ordination will be legally-recognized. While you'll want to check to see if registration is required in your state or nation, you will be able to perform, officiate at services and ceremonies, or serve in the same capacity as any other priest or minister.

You will be able to officiate at weddings

You'll be able to conduct funeral services

Baptisms

Do spiritual counseling as befits your training

Visit the sick in hospitals and long term care facilities

You'll be able to "administer" last rites, which are really a final attempt at healing. (Technically, what we call Last Rites is actually called extreme unction.)

You'll be empowered to teach and preach, not to be "above" anyone but to be true to your "call" to spread the good news of the redeeming power of God's peace and love and activity in our lives.

To be successfully ordained, you will have to complete the online study program. It is a "Fast-Track" program for qualified applicants.

Tuition Fees -Time to Enter Your Program?

You pay only a modest tuition fee, due to our not-for-profitseminary status. Fees underwrite our administrative costsand are used to pay a small stipend to faculty members whoassist you with your lessons.

Entry-level online Ordination - $250: Many people thatwe think of as being ministers are not, in fact, ordained.These can include youth ministers, music minister, even many associate ministers. They may perform the duties for which they are hired by the trustees or deacons, but generally may not offer sacramental services such as marriage, Holy Communion, etc.

Often, though, the time arrives when the senior pastor takes a leave of absence, or there is a vacancy for his or her position. With enough church background or human services experience, we are able to enroll applicants in an Entry-level program that leads to relatively rapid ordination for a local church. It is hoped that these folks continue on to more advanced professional seminary education once they are in entry-level positions. We are happy to enroll them in the next level of pastoral education when and if they are ready.

Combined Ordination / Chaplaincy Studies - $950: Increasingly, Hospice, Hospitals, the military, jails and prisons are requiring that ministers and Certified Professional Chaplains have bothcertifications while working in their facilities. Previously, students had to complete one curriculum, say ordination, before enrolling in the other. This resulted in unnecessarily high tuitions and quite a lot of study duplication.

Our trustees, however, saw the wisdom and practicalityin combining the two curricula so that, today, anordination student may apply his or her completedlessons toward a Certified Professional Chaplain program.Having the courses in one program accepted by the othercuts the tuition formerly required nearly in half and, at thesame time, virtually eliminates duplication in course work.We will gladly email you information about our onlineordination, online chaplaincy studies, and our specially-formulated combined online divinity programs.

Professional-level Ordination - $750: In the Professional-level online Ordination Fast-Track Adult Learning studies, students obtain the comprehensive curriculum that one would expect from a world-class seminary such as ours.You will briefly review Biblical teachings regarding service to others... you will explore others' beliefs inComparative World Religions...you'll look at ethics...legal aspects of ministry ...praying with parishioners and their families...and pastoral counseling.

There will be an exploration of ceremonies to be performed...basic techniques for working with grieving people...as well as studies in practical ministerial skill sets such as delivering highly-effective sermons. Also included will be basic understandings of both stress and anger management, and pastoral counseling.

"Follow meand I willmake youfishers ofmen"-- Matthew 4:19

Study to become an ordained minister in the comfort of your home or office without leaving your job or relocating your family. Welcome to the world's pioneer chartered college seminary offering online training for adult learners!

We are a not-for-profitseminary college of The Love Church Worldwide.

Many (perhaps even most) online ordination are for-profit businesses, not truechurches or seminaries.

While our students do complete studies, our charter permits us to award up to one-half credit for previous professional experience.

We accept all previous academic achievement, no matter how long ago those credit hours were earned.

We offer interest-freeTuition financing.

Our 100% legitimate ordinations are offered to qualified graduates and qualify you to be a minister anywhere in the U.S., Canada, and worldwide.